Esri introduced “Editor Tracking” fields at release 10.1.   So they’re not really new, but if you’re not using them now you might consider changing since there can be a considerable positive impact.  When enabled they record the name of the user and the date any time a feature in the target class is created or […]
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Here’s one that’s thrown us from time to time and usually results in a “I could have had a V8!” head slap when we remember the cause (and you think we’d remember after the first time). We’ll start with the familiar experience of receiving the “Trace Returned No Results” message, below. We’re just outside the […]
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Background ArcFM Cathodic Protection (CP) tracing for gas and water networks relies on coded value domains to determine whether a pipe or device should be considered conductive – and thus traceable – or not. Key among these are these fields.  (For the priority of what happens when one field indicates traceable and another indicates non-traceable […]
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